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There’s a quiet honesty running through this series by London-based photographer Oliver Villegas. Shot with model Annia Krystyna, the images feel unforced, almost accidental in the best way, as if they happened rather than being carefully arranged. The setting is simple, intimate: bed sheets, soft daylight, a body moving without […]
Deceits feels like a band you experience before you fully understand. There’s a kind of raw clarity in what they do: direct, intense, and very present. Their sound carries both movement and emotion, pulling from different places without losing its core. In this conversation, Kevin “Pups” Moreno (vocals / instruments) […]
There’s something quietly compelling about the way Antony Szmierek arrived in music, not through ambition, but through observation, writing, and a moment of stillness that pushed everything forward. What began as poetry, scribbled over time, slowly found its way into sound during a period when the world itself felt suspended. […]
Qingshan Liu is a China-based photographer whose work moves between intimacy and tension, instinct and observation. His images focus on contemporary youth, not as a defined generation, but as individuals navigating emotional extremes, desire, anxiety, closeness, and distance. His latest body of work, brought together in “The Heat of the […]
There’s something different about this issue. Not just in the way it looks, although it does look sharper, more layered, and intentional, but in how it moves. Issue #8 feels like a space where different practices collide: music, visual art, digital experimentation, and everything in between. CVLTARTES Issue #8 brings […]
The organizers of the Rock la Mureș festival, scheduled for July 10–11 at its traditional location on the banks of the Mureș River, at Periam Port in Timiș County, announce a new wave of artists joining the already confirmed lineup. The announcement includes four bands from different sonic areas, selected […]
Lira Bekbolatova’s latest releases unfold like a quiet interior dialogue, shaped by memory, grief, and the search for an inner sense of home. Moving away from external narratives and toward a deeply introspective language, her recent work treats music as a form of creative meditation, a space where questions are […]
Some albums announce themselves loudly, and others insinuate their presence over time, quietly rearranging the furniture in your head. “Mekanikaru” belongs firmly to the second category, and that is precisely its strength. It did not win me over instantly. Instead, it returned, insisted gently, and ended up occupying a space […]
Emerging from the theatrical world, Galore is an artist who defies simple categorization. What began as a stage persona has grown into a multifaceted musical project, blending the intimacy of cabaret with the expansiveness of original songwriting. With roots in Italy and a creative home in London, Galore navigates a […]
This January, Kings Place presents a three‑day immersive event with award‑winning creative studio Ristband, combining live music, VR performance, and a machine‑learning installation to explore how we inhabit and remember the world around us. As part of ‘Memory Unwrapped‘, running 15-17 January 2026, audiences can step into a mixed‑reality VR […]